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Friday, 27 July 2012

Food on Friday: Go bananas!

Okey dokey, this week we are collecting recipes/ideas for using bananas.

Update: I have now made up a Pinboard for these links. Click here if you would like to see it.

To
get you started thinking, here is Stephanie Alexander's list of what goes well
with bananas:

Bacon

Breakfast
cereals

Brown
sugar

Caramel

Chicken

Chillies

Cinnamon

Coconut

Cream

Cumin

Curry
spices

Fish

Fruit
salad

Honey

Kirsch

Lemons

Maple
syrup

Nutmeg

Nuts

Onions

Pork

Raisins

Rum

Sugar

Vanilla

yoghurt

One
or two things on this list were a surprise to me – like onions and pork.

So
just put your links into Mr Linky
below. And while you are here check out
other Food on Friday editions on ingredients you might be interested in. You will find them in a sidebar to the right
(just under the list of Cryptic crossword clue types – which is another whole
subject entirely).

I thought the same thing about the onions and pork.... cumin and chicken too. Thanks for inviting me to link my mini sour cream banana breads. If it's okay, I'd like to link my most popular recipe post as well - To die For Banana Bread with Vanilla Bean Frosting, which has had almost 40,000 hits.

What an interesting list of food pairings with bananas! Chilis? Fish? Pork? All seems a bit strange to me, but I'd be willing to give it a try at least once. I was surprised that peanut butter was not on the list. Peanut butter and banana sandwiches are one of my favourites!

Bananas are a great way to include sweetness without including sugar and it's a great way to use them up if they've gone a bit 'over' in the fruit bowl. I've posted some baby friendly recipes with no added sugar. Remember as well if you're going to use them in cooking and they're going a bit over ripe, you can always peel, chop and freeze them until you have a chance to whip up a batch of pancakes or whatever.

Hi Carole! I love the list of what goes well with bananas. It's a great resource to have. I wasn't surprised to see onions on the list - we grew up eating peanut butter, banana and onion sandwiches. I know, they sound horrible, but are surprisingly delicious! Have a great week!!

Thanks for the invite - I linked the banana caramel blondies. Sorry for the slow response, just got back from a trip. Oops, sorry, I just saw I put the wrong name for the recipe - is there any way to edit it?

I've finally got around to posting up the Sugar Free Blueberry & Banana Muffin Stack! I've been chasing my tail whilst trying to catch up on the two weeks or so I've been poorly. Still, I'm back now - and thank you for giving me a nudge. :)